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techxplosion
12-21-2007, 04:29 PM
The Marijuana Policy Project's Medical Marijuana PAC will donate $10,000 -- the maximum permitted* -- to the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney, John McCain, or Rudolph Giuliani if they can prove that any one of their statements about medical marijuana documented on this site are true.

Check it out people:

http://www.medicalmarijuanaworks.org/

1913_to_2008
12-21-2007, 04:50 PM
What about RP?

defcreative
12-21-2007, 04:55 PM
What about RP?

I just emailed them that very question.

FireofLiberty
12-21-2007, 04:58 PM
Well, what does RP have to prove? He supports medical marijuana.

HazardPerry
12-21-2007, 05:01 PM
Put your money where your mouth is you legalization junkies, my lord. It saddens me that a 72 year old grandfather has the balls to shout these things on national television, but everybody else is huddling down, unwilling to come out and support him. Give me a break. :mad:

paulaholic
12-21-2007, 05:09 PM
They won't be getting a cent.

trey4sports
12-21-2007, 05:11 PM
ive been a MPP member for a while now. they need to stepup the exposure for Dr. Paul. BTW when do the hightimes ad and the cannabis culture magazines come out

literatim
12-21-2007, 05:11 PM
Someone want to contact them and have them add the Huck?

InRonWeTrust
12-21-2007, 05:15 PM
When they fail to provide evidence, that 10Gs should go to Ron! Maybe a soft money ad in a magazine or something.

Highstreet
12-21-2007, 05:17 PM
The Marijuana Policy Project's Medical Marijuana PAC will donate $10,000 -- the maximum permitted* -- to the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney, John McCain, or Rudolph Giuliani if they can prove that any one of their statements about medical marijuana documented on this site are true.

Check it out people:

http://www.medicalmarijuanaworks.org/

It's a spoof site.

Texan4Life
12-21-2007, 06:14 PM
It's a spoof site.

I think your right.

mtmedlin
12-21-2007, 06:16 PM
spoof, and the max is actually $5,000 for any pac

FenceWalker
12-21-2007, 06:17 PM
It's a spoof site.
Sorry, I'm slow. What do you mean?

techxplosion
12-22-2007, 04:37 AM
it's NOT a spoof site.. this site was given to me through www.mpp.org mailing list.. maybe we can get MPP to help us put Ron Paul's name out there with that huge truck of theirs.. take a look at the newsletter that they had sent me.

Here's the newsletter:
'Dear e:

Last week, MPP offered the campaigns of presidential candidates Rudy Guiliani, John McCain, and Mitt Romney $10,000 apiece to back up their statements regarding medical marijuana.

The challenge was accompanied by a massive billboard featuring the three Republicans with Pinocchio noses. Details are available here. (http://control.mpp.org/site/R?i=QMA015MqASVFdEE3Ags1LQ..)

We’ve made great progress in New Hampshire (http://control.mpp.org/site/R?i=R2YGDgUmLNDUptMCRma9pw..) this year in pressuring the presidential candidates to take strong, public, positive positions on medical marijuana: Our efforts have led to 10 of the 17 major Democratic and Republican candidates pledging to end the DEA’s raids on patients and providers in the 12 states where medical marijuana is legal. Would you please consider making a donation (http://control.mpp.org/site/R?i=tU4C7FHmSKk8v61Frthn9g..) to support our efforts to bring medical marijuana into the national spotlight?

During the past nine months of this campaign, the three clowns on the billboard persistently made patently false statements in response to questions from patients who have benefited from medical marijuana — insulting seriously ill people and flouting a huge body of scientific evidence.

Muscular dystrophy patient Clayton Holton was rebuffed by this trio at three separate events in New Hampshire this fall. (http://control.mpp.org/site/R?i=wZ7cKces49NN_bNQtdi4fg..) Video footage of Gov. Romney’s snub was widely seen on CNN and YouTube.

Indeed, the candidates had the gall to claim to Mr. Holton and other patients that marijuana is too dangerous for medical use or not needed because adequate substitutes exist — claims that are refuted by the patients themselves, not to mention published scientific data.

If you like to see politicians called out on their lies, I hope you’ll make ( http://control.mpp.org/site/R?i=TLzkQMZbm86RY4PjFqbVpQ.. ) a year-end gift to MPP today.

Since appeals to science, compassion, and common sense haven’t worked, we’re speaking to these candidates in a language we know they understand — campaign contributions. If they can back up their claims, we’ll donate to their campaigns. But if they can’t, they need to stop lying.

But we don’t expect to have to pay. A panel of medical experts is ready to evaluate any responses we receive from the three campaigns, and we’re confident the candidates won’t be able to support their baseless claims.

Indeed, we’re still waiting for the campaigns to respond at all. Will you please (http://control.mpp.org/site/R?i=cOmzj9xQnrUHfbruOLahQQ..) make a donation to MPP today so that we can continue to pester these three candidates through the end of the New Hampshire primary season?

Thank you for supporting MPP’s work.

Sincerely,

Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.

P.S. As I've mentioned in previous alerts, a major philanthropist has committed to match the first $3.0 million that MPP can raise from the rest of the planet in 2007. This means that your donation today will be doubled. '

jgmaynard
12-22-2007, 11:38 AM
IDEA:

Curt Schilling is a pitcher for the Red Sox, Republican and politically active. He recently endorsed McCain for President (in NH territory, no less!), and posted it on his blog (38pitches.com). Now, Curt is VERY into doing everything he can to help cure ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)... I just realized that these two sentences could go together well in a comment on there:

""I have spent my entire career in search of more effective treatments for this awful disease [amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, aka Lou Gehrig’s disease)]. We have now found that the cannabinoids, the active ingredients in medical marijuana, work remarkably well in controlling the clinical symptoms of ALS. Even more exciting is that we are now discovering that the cannabinoids actually protect nerve cells and may prolong the life of patients with ALS." — Gregory Carter, M.D., clinical professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, and co-director, Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA)/Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Center (testimony submitted to Illinois Senate Public Health Committee, March 2007)."

""[T]here is a large body of medical opinion that says there is plenty of other medications that are more effective and better and less damaging to one's health to use to relieve pain." — April 25, 2007, at Veteran's Park in Manchester, New Hampshire"

A comment could be put on there about how Ron would allow this research to continue on ALS while McCain would likely block it for political reasons. His blog gets a LOT of traffic.

I'd do it, but I had a choice between that and a pure-tear-jerker comment, and I went with that today. :)

JM

techxplosion
12-22-2007, 03:46 PM
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Unspun
12-22-2007, 10:54 PM
The MPP is a legitimate organization, and this offer is a legitimate offer.

jenninlouisiana
12-22-2007, 11:01 PM
Ron Paul isn't on there because he supports medical marijuana.

Dumbasses are on there becase they repeat like sheep stupid claims that are untrue and can't be proven (like post smoking causes schizophrenia).

The donation is a "prize" if dumbasses can prove their stupidity.

My friend had breast cancer and she was allergic to 3 pain meds. She writhed in pain on the bathroom floor while her young children (6 and 4) were outside the door calling her name. This is what the government says is right and true.

techxplosion
12-24-2007, 12:15 AM
bump